Is there a future for UK innocence project work after the disbanding of the Innocence Network UK (INUK) earlier this year, see Jon Robins here? A resounding “Yes”, but perhaps under different names and banners, – that was the answer that...

The state of prisons internationally represents ‘nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe waiting to happen,’ said the director of Swedish Prisons and Probation Nils Öberg last week. Delivering the annual Longford Lecture, Öberg highlighted...

Boris Johnson wants to take control of the criminal justice system in London, giving him the power to hold to account those responsible for arresting to charging and prosecuting. This move would secure control of courts and prosecution service...

‘Chris Grayling seems to think the private sector is the solution to this avoidable chaos afflicting prisons. His mantra of payment by results has left no one responsible for judging what’s working and what has failed,’ said Lord Ramsbotham last...

Just half of face-to-face housing advice available on legal aid was used last year despite soaring repossessions, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has revealed. Data obtained through a Freedom of Information request shows that the...

Sir Alan Moses, chair of the new press regulation body the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), has proposed the introduction of ‘press judges’ to improve the quality of media reporting of the law and break down public misconceptions...

The murders in Clydach 15 years ago were almost unimaginably brutal. A disabled grandmother, a mother and her two little girls were killed with a ferocious intensity that takes the breath away. These four people were murdered in their own home...

The pioneering Bristol Innocence Project launched at the fourth National Pro Bono Week back in 2004. Ten years later and the Innocence Network UK (INUK), the umbrella group that assisted the creation of 30-plus university-based ‘Innocence...

In April 2012, a few weeks after his 17th birthday, a sixth-former called Hughes Cousins-Chang and his friend were arrested on a London bus. They were handcuffed, cautioned and taken to Battersea police station, where they were strip-searched and...

When inspectors paid a surprise visit to HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey this past summer they found that the prison held 1,252 men. That’s 267 more than there should have been. Almost 200 of the men were unemployed and routinely spent 23 hours...

Channel 4 was accused of stirring up a ‘negative’ debate about immigration ahead of the general election and ‘ripping apart’ a community with its latest documentary-style reality TV show. A new series called...

‘The public learn so little from the judges and their judgments about the law, the legal system and the judges themselves,’ said the inaugural chair of the new press regulator last night. At the annual Tom Bingham Lecture, in memory of former...